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Traxxas Big Bore with RC Raven duel rates yes or no???

I have an Emaxx mamba monster 2200kv running 6s. I havennt ran it in a while but I decided I want to get back into the hobby. I decided on transfering all parts to the FLM chassis soon once it comes in. I want to design the truck around high speed handling and bashing around the house with small jumping, no 30 footers or anything. I have RPM A Arms front and rear and some junk ebay aluminum shocks from Ebay that when you press down on the truck, the shocks dont rebound up and return to normal ride height. I am looking for an affordable shock around $60, which the Big Bores by Traxxas seem to offer. Are these still good technology since they have been around for a while or is there some latest and greatest craze. Also thought about upgrading springs to RC Raven dual rates and 50 wt shock oil. YES or NO, THOUGHTS????

They are from Boom Racing. I just noticed too that when I press down on the truck only the rear doesn't rebound which is strange. I played around with it and notice the rear a-arms are real stiff where the rod goes through to secure it to the arms. I may just pull it apart and lubricate the rods. I still want a good shock setup and something that looks pretty too lol!!

Traxxas BB's are a choice, the springs they come with are total garbage!
RCRaven duel rates & 45~65wt oil on the BB's is a good combination.

Most definately clean/free up any binding in the suspension.

Shocks really don't change much, if your using the FLM or UE towers then you can use UE Supershock's or buggy rear shocks in either a 4 or 8 shock setup depending on how much you Maxx weighs loaded with batteries.

The downside is they cost more, $80 shipped for the UE supershocks(with springs,mounts & hardware) or try hitting up somne ebay auctions to try to score some buggy rear shock's cheapper but your still gonna need springs.

Thanks Wildman for the great info. Looks like dual rates make the biggest difference in handling from what I am hearing so I will go pick up some pretty lime greeen dual rates from RC Raven and throw them on my boom racing specials LOL! Cant wait to transfer everything over to the FLM chassis and see hpw it goes.

Awesome info guys, thx! I'm just getting back into the hobby and buying a bunch if aluminum so I want this thing riding right. I ordered up the RC raven dual rates for now. $12 is worth a possible better suspension for my eBay shocks. I almost pulled the trigger on the strut towers when I was ordering my FLM chassis, front bulk, skid plates, hinge pins etc. They only list one strut tower on FLM's website. Are they good for front and rear so order quantity 2???

Here's a pic of the beast about to be transformed minus wheelie bar which was laying in the street at time of pic. No clue how it fell off?

Actually looks are deceiving and for the dual rates to fit on the eBay shocks. I also figured out to switch the spring mount if that's what you call it from the stock shocks to the ebays and here we have it

Aluminum shocks were purchases a couple years ago so no. I will decide what to do after the first run with the new build then maybe some traxxas big bore with the dual rates or some ofna buggys with FLM towers

If you ever come across some maxx power strokes on ebay buy them. Once in a while they turn up, but very very expensive.
Last set i seen was still in package and went for over $120. with 18 bids not that long ago.

When i got my truck i used to read about people bending the pins and thought how is it possible to bend them without breaking the bulks or arms. Then I bought some u.e. bulks and came to change over, took the pins out and couldn't believe how bent they were. The Ti ones seem to be ok, upto now.